Why do women and the society dislike the loaded who are mean, yet it’s their money? By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Some Kenyan men could do very well as faces of the online Stingy Men Association of Kenya: The late Mbiyu Koinange, President Jomo Kenyatta’s brother in-law, left a Sh30 billion estate, but wore only one […]
If you’re a Safaricom subscriber, a diehard drinker of EABL products, you make him filthy rich By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Reclusive billionaire Dr John Kibunga Kimani, one of Kenya’s Uber-rich serial investors, can get lost in a crowd of three. Until recently, there was no photo of him in the public domain. As is […]
Rev Peter Kania withdrew Sh3 million after his death and four months later his deactivated cell phone cleaned three bank accounts dry By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/Crime It was the bizarre case of a pastor whose accounts lost Sh3 million before he was buried and his cell phone number used to steal Sh2.8 million from […]
He got a driver jailed for three months for refusing to give him a lift By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe One day at 7:30 am in June 1988 when Kenya was still in democratic Stone Age, a big man in government made a small man go to jail over a lift. It was a case of […]
The mpango’s kids of late billionaire Nginyo Kariuki are also demanding a piece of his Sh4 billion estate By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe The late politician Mark Too had two wives and 11 children-four from mpango wa kando-and now crawling from the woodworks demanding their share of his multibillion shilling estate. It is a […]
Former prison warden and President’s nephew was Kenya’s largest timber poles dealer By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe As he sipped wine at a private member’s club last Friday, death was smoking a joint waiting for Hosea Kiplagat at the Karen Hospital. Kiplagat-a Moi political orphan- had left his Karen home along Quarry Lane to Invergara Club […]
Women leave inheritance to their kids leaving out husbands. The late governor was no different… complicating matters By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Your dear loving wife is unlikely to include you in her Will. Her bank account savings, which are a state secret, have the children listed as next of kin. You are also unlikely […]
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, his dad was the first Kisii to own cars, grow coffee By Undercover Reporter He had a soft spot for Kikuyu women. Of his five wives-who gave him 20 children-two were from Mt Kenya: One, the sister of a Cabinet Minister’s wife, the other a soldier’s daughter […]
Farida Wambui demanding custody of their kids and that gospel musician delete all family photos on social media By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Gospel musician Daddy Owen is facing a lawsuit from his estranged wife, Farida Wambui. The celebrity couple who went separate ways last December after four years of marriage will now face […]
Musician had long suspected family deaths could be linked to sidestepping Kikuyu traditions Weighed down by earning Sh10 ferrying sacks of maize in rural Subukia, Mugithi One-Man guitarist Mighty Salim, borrowed Sh300 from the sister of a friend to seek fortunes in Nairobi. That was in 1999 when the class eight graduate came looking or […]